drm/ast: Remove existing framebuffers before loading driver
authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:42:16 +0000 (11:42 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 1 Dec 2018 08:48:05 +0000 (09:48 +0100)
commit7a0be1dcdb4384bfb1266fb601523dfcb2cea1f1
tree951872b0d543f10943a97c13e265471d99b924f3
parent580c3e9a858e9ca5b5283755d910b9229d9b3224
drm/ast: Remove existing framebuffers before loading driver

commit 5478ad10e7850ce3d8b7056db05ddfa3c9ddad9a upstream.

If vesafb attaches to the AST device, it configures the framebuffer memory
for uncached access by default. When ast.ko later tries to attach itself to
the device, it wants to use write-combining on the framebuffer memory, but
vesefb's existing configuration for uncached access takes precedence. This
results in reduced performance.

Removing the framebuffer's configuration before loding the AST driver fixes
the problem. Other DRM drivers already contain equivalent code.

Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1112963
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Y.C. Chen <yc_chen@aspeedtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.c